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Roast Beef · 10-08-2010, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by browna

I was the most popular girl on the team at swim meets.

I bet

Nage Waza · 10-08-2010, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by browna

I used to be able to rig the cable boxes in hotels so we could get free movies (including the pr0n) with a bobby pin (Macgyver style!)

I was the most popular girl on the team at swim meets.

I could also do that, working oilpatch I learned many Macgyver type tricks (I used a metal fork and I would bend it to rig the channels).

normtwofinger · 10-09-2010, 06:26 AM

Does anyone remember one of the shopping channels used to sometimes be a still image that refreshed every 30 seconds? I was really young at the time, so I don't remember fully. I remember a bald lady for some reason. Maybe I'm out to lunch...

Shazam · 10-09-2010, 08:34 AM

Yup, The Score used to be like that too.

speede5 · 10-09-2010, 09:06 AM

We used to use a filter made up of about 12 feet of antenna wire and tinfoil strategically wrapped around it every 6 inches or so, if it got fuzzy your would slide the tinfoil back and forth till it cleared up. Superchannel was quite lame by today's standards, and we just had to figure it out.

Shazam · 10-09-2010, 01:08 PM

I remember watching the Flames comeback against the Leafs in that 6-5 OT win years ago. It was on TSN, back when they were a premium channel.

Northendzone · 10-09-2010, 01:21 PM

i remeber buying a homemande descrambler for $25 - it never did work that great......

Hack&Lube · 10-09-2010, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

Those were good times. And then Showcase came around with the Red Shoe Diaries. That was like David Duchovny's gift to teens everywhere.

Btw, gotta love how some guy references "a long time ago" and then says the late 90's, early 2000's. Wasn't that like yesterday?

No that was 10 years ago, not like yesterday.

CaptainCrunch · 10-09-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by speede5

We used to use a filter made up of about 12 feet of antenna wire and tinfoil strategically wrapped around it every 6 inches or so, if it got fuzzy your would slide the tinfoil back and forth till it cleared up. Superchannel was quite lame by today's standards, and we just had to figure it out.

Man, I remember building one of those, it was so picky about the tin foil wrappings.